MPC minutes: How the Bank of England's hawks and doves voted in March 2011

Mervyn King: (March vote - no change to policy)

The Bank of England Governor and chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee.
King joined the MPC in 1997 and was for a long time seen as hawkish –
regularly voting for tighter monetary policy than his colleagues. However,
since the financial crisis, he has softened his stance. He led the charge to
slash interest rates and launch quantitative easing, the buying of assets
using the Bank's balance sheet. In a speech on January 25, King hit back at
criticism that the Bank had gone soft on inflation, saying it would be wrong
to tighten policy in response to short-term price pressures.